The Osceola times., 1887-04-09

POLICE INSPECTOR SoNRrILLs and Con-
stable Garrett, who were found guilty by
the coroner's jury Of numbering Haulon,
at Youghal, Ireland, have been released
on their own recognizances.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
We're sworn In at Washington on the 3lst,
and organized by the election OF Judg,
Cooley as chairman.
THE comments OF the London papers on
the new Land bill, and on the popular
feeling over proposed coercion legislation,
are not very encouraging TO the govern.
ment side.
THERE wa an army OF dead head pas
sengers on the trains Of the Pennsylvania
Company's lines on the 3lst. The free
pass 'habit' expired on that system at
midnight OF that dav.
Tue Peasioa Oairs, Oh the Isl. issuel
l,O0) pension certificates This is said TO
be the largest number ever issued in ono
day by the bureau.
THERE are now before the General Land
Office %, los cases awaiting adjudication.
During The past week l,26S land patents
were approve !.
DuRING III, week ending March ii II!
final homestead entries were approved by
the Commissioner of the General Land
Office; 34 final timber culture entries; Al
tnal desert land entries, and 15l clsh
timber land entries, making a total Of
l,26s land patents approved. There are
81, l0j cases pending before ths Office.
The murdered girl at Il lhway, N. j., h,s
again been identified, this time as Wilhel-
nina Johnson, OF Brooklyn.
ABOUT three hundred and fifty painters,
comprising the Painters unions Of New
lst because of the refusal of the bosses to
concede shorter hours OF labor AMI pay
for overwork. The plumbers, gas and
steam filters also went out. They num-
Der about fifty. Their demand is for
shorter hours, pay for overwork, AMI
double pay for holidays
SENTIMENT in Canada Is reported to be
crystalizing strongly against the govern
ments Anti-bait bill. Ii is ciaim5l that
the measure will prove more detrimental
TO Canada thln to Americans.
| REvoLuTIoSARY movements in Bulgaria
are becoming alarmingly frequent, the
hands OF Russian cmissarcs being plain Y
| visible wherever trouble occurs.
| THREE Russians who attempted t) as
sassinate the Car on March l3 have been
hanged at St Petersburg
| 1T is the opinion IN European diplomatic
circles that the Gar of Russia will soon
be driven INTO war if for no other reason
than to divert the attention of internal
agitators
| NEWS of disasters to sealing vessels off
Newfoundland continues to be received,
and ii is estimated that the loss of life
will aggregate several hundred persons
! Tue Interstate Commerce Commission
is gong TO have ITS hands full. Georgia
representatives, who were first to ten Ter
congratulations on the passage of the bill
are first TO discover that the necessarily
revised freight tariffs are going to work
ruin TO the Southern shippers.
INVESTIGATION into the affairs of A. NJ
Stanton, of Detroit Mich, who ran away
with the funds of George X Si,tare q
Son, of New York, shows shortage OF
s2S,0)0.
TnE fine Roman amphith .lter. in Aus
uia, on the Adriatic, suddenly collapsed
on the 2l, and fell into au immense chasm
which opened on the site, and from this
chasm volcanic vapors are now emitted.
| A sUCCEssFUL trial of the Terry cable
system for streetrailways was mtde upon
an experimental track in ST. Louis on the
81, and 1t seems to be the coming motor
for that city.
WORK on the guns for the new war-shps
is being pushed at the Washington ord
nance foundry.
THE Pope has seat q con tidential com
munication to Prussian bishops, inviting
suggestions as to the feasibility of estab-
fishing municlture at Berlin for Prussia,
or one municature for the whole of Ger
many.
AT "A meeting of Cincinnati Typographi.
cal Union No. 3, on the 81, the price OF
composition was raised from forty cents
to forty five cents per 1909 ems on morn.
ing papers, and proportionate advance
on afternoon sheets and job WORK.
Amour thirteen thousand apple ltions
for Mexican pensions have been filed, but
they have hlrdly began yet to come out OF
the mill, although one hundred volunteer
clerks are working on them overtime.
Seven were granted last week, but they
had been made special under the general
provisions OF the Pcnsion Ofice. In a
short tine, however. it is expected the
preliminary work viii BE- over, AMI then
they will b. granted at the rate of thou
sand week.
Two more bodies have been disc)v ne I
in the ruins of the Richmond Hotel at
Buffalo, N. Y.-those of man and a
woman. They wers found near the cen.
ter of the building. Their lentity so Ear
remains mystery.